Analysis of Puff, Puff, Pass
“Yeha noha,
Yeha noha.”
The Indians chant,
summoning the healing spirits
from the marijuana cloud.
Puff, puff, and pass the chillum pipe.
Bodies carelessly twirl the ceremonial dance.
Those days are aged.
A stoned car tore through Chippewa school district,
bodies flung, viciously,
against hard turf,
and the spliff flew from the puff-puff-passing hands.
Blood stained the white car red,
and dripped from the hood as thick as ignorant minds.
Can cannabis cure a family’s pain?
Puff, puff and pass the crack-cocaine.
Scheme | AAxxxxxx xxxxxx bb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11 01001 10001010 100101 1101011 101001001001 1111 0111110110 101100 0111 00111011101 110111 011011111001 11001011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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